Color

#ab9254

#ab9254
hex#ab9254
rgbrgb(171, 146, 84)
hslhsl(43, 34%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.086 88.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2986

Colors that go with #ab9254

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #ab9254

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#546dab

#ab6754 · #98ab54

#54ab92 · #9254ab

Split-complementary

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#5498ab · #6754ab

#54ab67 · #546dab · #ab5498

Contrast

#ab9254 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #857242 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #635531 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9458 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab9254 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab9254 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9254
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ab9254 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9254-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md